Here is the 2nd installment of famous quotes. I found these on a few different sites, Phrases worth considering, Famous Quotes & Quote World. Hope you all find these inspirational or interesting.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.” Mark Twain (Writer)
“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” Robert Charles Benchley (Humorist & Critic)
“The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79…..” Douglas Noel Adams (Writer)
“Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” Charles Dickens (Writer)
“When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” John F. Kennedy (President)
“[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It’s like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I’m waiting on 6 million people in a week if I’m lucky.” Harrison Ford (Actor)
“Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.” Herb Brody (Editor)
“The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.” Walter Bagehot (Journalist)
“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” Jan Gladewell (Columnist)
“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Philologist)
Here are some links to sites with more info on some of the people who said the above:
Friedrich Nietzsche – Wikipedia
Mark Twain – Wikipedia
Douglas Adams – Wikipedia
Charles Dickens – Wikipedia
John F. Kennedy – Wikipedia
Harrison Ford – Internet Movie Database
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